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n. (plural of negro English)
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Negros is an island in the Philippines, which is the fourth largest in the country with a total land area of . Negros is one of the islands that comprise the Visayas, which forms the central division of the country.
As an administrative region, it is officially named the Negros Island Region also abbreviated as NIR, the 18th and newest region of the Philippines comprising the highly urbanized city of Bacolod and the provinces of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental along with its corresponding outlying islands and islets.
It was created by virtue of Executive Order No. 183 issued by President Benigno Aquino III on May 29, 2015. Inhabitants of the island region are mainly called Negrenses (locally Negrosanons). As of 2015, Negros Island Region's total population is 4,414,131.
Negros (1865-1890) was a historical former province in the Philippines which is coterminous with the island of Negros and its outlying islands.
The islands became a Spanish military district in 1734 and the municipality of Ilog served as its first capital. The seat of government was later transferred to Himamaylan in 1795 until Bacolod became the capital in 1849. In 1865, it was raised into a politico-military province. The province was composed of 2 geographical regions: the Occidental Negros (the de jure and de facto seat of the government) and Oriental Negros. All three towns which were designated as capitals are part of Occidental Negros. On January 1, 1890, Occidental Negros and Oriental Negros officially became separate regular provinces through by a royal decree executed by Governor General Valeriano Weyler. Occidental Negros retained its capital in Bacolod while Oriental Negros made Dumaguete as its capital. The two provinces were briefly united as an independent Republic of Negros in November 1898 until May 1, 1901 when Occidental Negros and Oriental Negros were annexed under the Insular Government of the United States of America through Acts No. 119 and 120 respectively which was enacted on April 20, 1901, as with the rest of the country, and later under the Government of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. The island of Siquijor was then made a "sub-province" of Oriental Negros on October 8, 1907 through Act No. 1753. On March 10, 1917, both Occidental Negros and Oriental Negros became provinces under the American civil government through Act 2711. After years of liberation from foreign forces, Siquijor was separated from Oriental Negros and became a regular province on November 11, 1971 by Republic Act No. 6398 which was approved on September 17, 1971.
Oriental Negros was then renamed into its present name Negros Oriental while Occidental Negros was also renamed into its present name Negros Occidental.
Usage examples of "negros".
All the hangers-on of the Rebel camp--clerks, teamsters, employer, negros, hundreds of white and colored women, in all forming a motley crowd of between one and two thousand, were gathered together in a group between the end of the rifle pits and the Star Fort.
Long lines of earthworks were being constructed, gangs of negros were felling trees, building forts and batteries, making abatis, and toiling with numbers of huge guns which were being moved out and placed in position.
Es verdad que yo padecí cautiverio en el alcázar de Yakub el Doliente, a raíz de la conspiración que fraguó mi hermano Ibrahim, con el fementido y vano socorro de los caudillos negros del Kordofán, que lo denunciaron.
Los bordes de las heridas eran negros y emanaban un leve hedor putrefacto.
En esta noche de sus ojos mortales, a la que ahora descendía, lo aguardaban también el amor y el riesgo, Ares y Afrodita, porque ya adivinaba (porque ya lo cercaba) un rumor de gloria y de hexámetros, un rumor de hombres que defienden un templo que los dioses no salvarán y de bajeles negros que buscan por el mar una isla querida, el rumor de las Odiseas e Ilíadas que era su destino cantar y dejar resonando cóncavamente en la memoria humana.
Su atención se desvió de Conan y, en ese breve instante, la figura blanca y esbelta de una muchacha desnuda con brillantes ojos oscuros y un torrente de rizos negros cruzó rápidamente el salón desde las sombras de una columna situada a un lado del desvalido cimmerio.
La chica gemía en una especie de delirio y se percibía una invisible angustia en sus brillantes ojos negros.
The whole country was carefully policed by Provost Marshals to bring out those who were shirking military duty, or had deserted their colors, and to check any movement by the negros.
I have seen men brought in from the Stockade in a dying condition, begrimed from head to foot with their own excrements, and so black from smoke and filth that they, resembled negros rather than white men.
While Indian meal, even when prepared with the husk, is one of the most wholesome and nutritious forms of food, as has been already shown by the health and rapid increase of the Southern population, and especially of the negros, previous to the present war, and by the strength, endurance and activity of the Confederate soldiers, who were throughout the war confined to a great extent to unbolted corn- meal.
We occasionally came across negros, of whom we cautiously inquired as to the route and towns, and by the assistance of our map and the stars, got along very well indeed, until we came to the Suwanee River.